THE HOPRY SOMEBODY'S GOTTA DRINK OR IT WON'T GET DONE!

Session # 103 | Dark Horse | Too | 8% ABV
Milk / Sweet Stout | Marshall, MI | Rating: 82/100

Now for the beer… This week I’ll be sharing a brewery that I think most of you are familiar with called Dark Horse Brewing Company out of Marshall, Michigan. This is a fairly small brewery that doesn’t have the widest distribution (outside the northern part of the Midwest), but I was able to purchase several of their beers while on a recent trip to Minneapolis. I chose to do a week of stouts because the brewery actually has a lineup of stouts called the Holiday Stout Series. Though the Special Reserve Black Bier, which we will look at on Friday, is not in this series of beers, you’ll see that it might as well be. Today’s beer, called Too, is the breweries cream stout that is released every November and clocks in (purportedly) at 8%. It pours black as it should with a light tan-colored head that tends to hang around longer than one might expect. The nose is (as I’ve come to learn) very indicative of a Dark Horse stout. There is loads of damp cave, earth, malts, blueberry, chocolate, caramel, and charred corn, which all seem to unfold as you drink it. The taste is slightly different than the aroma and it comes off unusually thin on the palate. I expected an 8% cream stout to be much sweeter and chewier than this. However, the flavor unleashes a lot of chocolate, molasses, frisee (lettuce), and cream. It’s definitely an interesting stout, but not quite what I expected from a cream stout in particular. Up next: Dark Horse Fore

Others: Dark Horse Tres, Portsmouth Black Cat, Bells Cream Stout

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